Name plate



Feb. 17, 1931.

H." HEINICKE NAME PLATE Filed Aug. 51. 192s:v

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D u D D PatenteclFel). 17, 1931 UNITED sTATEs HERMANN HEINICKE, OF DRESDEN, GERMANY NAME PLATE Application filed August 31, 1929, Serial No. 389,749, and in Germany July 12, 1928.

ters can be interchanged have become known, such plates are however of cast iron and blocks with numerals cast on. are to be riveted on these plates. Such plates become of badv appearance after a very short time and they get rusty, so that the numerals and charactors are difficult to read. Plates have further become known the base portion of which consists of a sheet metal fissures in the windows, the joints get rusty.

Enamelled signs do not allow of folding over the bent oft ends on the rear side of the plate, as the enamel will peel off at the'bending, so that not only the appearance of the plates is spoiled but the influences of the Weather can more easily, act on the plates.

The novelty of the invention consists in that every: individual sign plate has ext-en sions at the ends, designed to be inserted through narrow holes in the plates and to be held on the hack of the plate by means of metal seals. The use of metal seals presents the advantage that the enamelled signplates can be stamped in one piece, this being not possible when screws and nuts are used for fixing the numerals and characters. Instead of enamelledbase plates numerals and characters of weather-proof material may be used,

for instance of aluminium,rustfree steel or plates, numerals and characters.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 shows a name plate in elevation.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of Fig. 1. V

Fig. 3 is a cross section on line AB of Fig. 1; V r i r 7 According to the invention a plate a, which has av number of apertures b, has to carry for instance the capital letter S, thenumerals 200; 3.5; 18.1; the arrow 0 and the lead seals e.- The sign plates are stamped, as

shown in Fig. 9, together with the ends d in one piece, the front side of the sign plates being pressed so that it is, of curved cross section,'as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, and the ends d being bent at right angles to the rear. The sign'plates and the plate a are then coated with stove enamel. I

The signs are fixed on the plate a by passing the ends cl through the apertures 19 of the plate a, whereupon from the rear of the plate a seals e'of' lead or similar soft metal are placed'over the projecting ends, 01. These lead or other seals are then compressed so that the material fills'the indentations f of the ends 0?, whereby the sign plates are rigidly connected with theplate a. By the use of softmetal seals 6 cracking off of the stove enamel on the sign plates and on the plate at the compressing is precluded. a I claim V 1. A name plate comprising in combinav $5 is no longer necessary to paint or coat the tion a plate having several apertures, sign plates each having an extension at each end bent at right angles to the body thereof, said ends having indentations and being inserted through the corresponding apertures of said plate, and lead seals compressed over the extensions of said signs at the rear of the plate so that the metal of the seals fills the indentations of said ends to rigidly connect said sign plates with said apertured plate.

2. A name plate as specified in claim 1, comprising in combination a plate and Sign plates, both of Weather proof material and With a coating of stove enamel.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature.

HERMAN N HEINICKE. 

